This was causing these to be in the docs:

The issues are the overstriking, the wiggly baseline, and the difficulty in telling which tick the intermediate labels apply to.

The smarter formatter is still there and can be used, but is disabled by default.

This is certainly an improvement, and I am willing to merge as-is, but it feels like we are papering over some deeper issues. Do we have issues filed detailing the wiggly baseline?

Also, I feel that there is too much blank space between the tick labels now, but at least they aren't overlapping anymore, right?

Ticks labels are placed at a fixed pad away from the end of the tick mark and thenva='top' which explains the wiggles in the baseline.

#6549 and#7001 track the opposite case where we have too many log ticks.